NATIONAL PRESS FOUNDATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200700044-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2010
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: January 22, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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he past five ye's. It has assets of
rly $10 million.
lost of the grants have been made to
I civic, cultural, educational and
ritable organizations but several
nalism projects have also been hene-
ries. They included:
:holarships at Ball State University;
)ellinger Learning Laboratory at In-
a University school of journalism:
rotojournalism scholarships at the
.ersity of Missouri;
NPA Foundation activities;
nerican Press Institute.
THE JOHN FREDERICK
STFINMAN FOUNDATION
THE JAMES HALE
STEINMAN FOUNDATION
e two Steinman family foundations,
h derive income from the newspaper
,wroadcasting enterprises in Lancas-
'a., are interested primarily in sup-
of local institutions. A portion of
funds goes to two specific areas:
K0 a year for five scholarships for
:rs and children of employes; and
00 it year for postgraduate work in
riatry, psychology and social case
py-
THE PIEDMONT
-LISHING CO. FOUNDATION
.cc becoming a subsidiary of Media
ral, Piedmont Publishing Co. of
ton-Salem, N.C. has allowed the
lation to he relatively dormant with
nominal funds. The main contribu-
$3,000 annually to the University
+rth C I'
ro
$19.5011 for the J+
Series at the Univer.
NATIONAL PRESS FOUNDATION
Profiting from it benefit world pre-
miere of the film "Twilight's Last
Gleaming" on February 6 and with its
tax exempt status now granted, the
two-year-old National Press Foundation
is beginning an active 1977.
"Twilight's Last Gleaming''-a
psychological drama involving nuclear
blackmail-centers on the public's right
to know and the premiere at
Washington's Kennedy Center will ben-
efit the Foundation by $60,000, if
Foundation president Robert Ames Al-
den's hopes are borne out.
"In the past," Alden told E&P, "we
have been working with funds totaling no
more than $1000.
LNational Press Foundation, Inc. was
established in 1975 as an organization to
foster professionalism in the practice of
journalism.
One of the major parts of the program
is the awarding of scholarships for jour-
nalists who wish to engage in advanced
study, do research, or undertake full
time creative writing.
Teltronics Ltd.
accused of ad
a
ma Sal Journalism.
.o, the Winston-Salem m State State Uni-
fraud by PO
y has receiv
d $1000
e
to provide
, it, students who are interested in
alism careers but without an
it commitment.
3INGHAM ENTERPRISES
UNDATION OF KENTUCKY
eral companies owned by the Bing-
family-the Courier-Journal and
,ville Times Company, Standard
Ire Corporation, and WHAS,
-supply about $300,000 annually to
undation. Grants in four out of the
ive years have exceeded the rev-
and this has cut the reserve fund
than $250,(00. The grants for five
amounted to $1.8 million.
principal beneficiaries are organi-
s in Kentucky and part of southern
ia, the largest gift ($90,000) being to
nited Way. Among aid to jour-
i have been:
.000 to the American Press lnsti-
uilding fund;
100 to the Inter American Press As-
ion scholarship fund;
100 to the SNPA Foundation;
100 for a scholarship at the Univer-
r Kentucky;
)00 to the Edward R. Murrow
r at Tufts University;
A & PUBLISHER for January 22, 1977
Mail to Teltronics, Ltd., Des Plaines,
Ill., a mail-order firm advertising inex-
pensive digital watches, is being held by
the U.S. Postal Service under a tempor-
ary restraining order issued by the U. S.
District Court of the Northern District of
Illinois.
Teltronics, Ltd. had advertised
L.E.D. digital watches for $16.95 in
Sunday magazine supplement, Parade,
and college newspapers, promising that
orders received by December IS would
be delivered before Christmas. A two-
watch order was encouraged with a
bonus of a free pocket calculator (E&P,
January 15).
Instead, persons who ordered received
nothing. Losses generated by this
scheme are estimated by the Illinois
State Attorney General's Office at be-
tween $1.8 and $2 million, although $1.2
million of it is in various bank accounts
and was reported to have been seized by
authorities. Information also indicate[`
that the owner of Teltronics has fled the
country, and transferred $800,000 to
banks in Mexico.
As a result of a Postal Inspection Ser-
vice investigation, the Consumer Protec-
tion Office of the Postal Law Department
a ar s program o t e
National Press Club. This includes the
prestigious Fourth Estate Award which
has been presented to Walter Cronkite,
.lames Reston, Richard Strout and John
S. Knight, and the Consumer Reporting
awards.
The Foundation embraces seven funds
altogether: awards, scholarships, a pro-
fessional fund, publications fund, arc-
hives fund, library fund, and-as a back-
up fund for all these-a general fund. In
the past gifts to it designated fund have
been encouraged and, in November, the
National Press Club sponsored a hook
and author night to benefit the library
fund.
Early in 1976, the Foundation pub-
lished it report on the White House and
the press that had been compiled by the
Professional Relations Committee of the
National Press Club.
Offices of the National Press Founda-
tion are at Suite 1380 of the National
Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045.
Associated with President Ames in di-
recting the foundation is Executive Di-
rector William M. Blair of the
Washington Bureau of the New York
Times.-)
filed a formal complaint accusing Tel-
tronics with conducting a false advertis-
ing scheme through the mail. Postal in-
spectors found that Teltronics was not
filling the orders and immediately re-
ported these findings to the Postal Ser-
vice Law Department and the U.S. At-
torney for possible administrative and
criminal action.
Over 1,000 complaints directed to var-
ious government and private agencies
have been received. Those wishing to
complain in the future should write to the
Illinois Attorney General, Consumer
Fraud Division, 134 N. LaSalle Street,
Chicago, Ill., 60602, and mark on the
outside of the envelope: Teltronics. This
action is important to consumers be-
cause the Illinois Attorney General has
filed a civil suit to assist victims of the
Teltronics scheme in getting some of
their money back.
Attendance record
Columbia (S.C.) Newspapers Inc.
broke all attendance records when they
sponsored the U.S. Armed Forces
Bicentennial Band and Chorus. Lt. Col.
Thurston, commander of the group,
said it was the largest single group the
band had performed for in the 373 per-
formances it has given in 262 cities. The
band has been on tour for two years,
traveling throughout all of the 50 states,
Mexico and Canada.
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